Kirchentag 2015
David and Marjorie Rolfe write about their experience of Kirchentag
We have just returned from an extraordinary event held over four days in Stuttgart: the Deutsche Evangelische Kirchentag. The event has its origins in 1949 at the end of an Evangelical Week in Hannover. It was begun as a lay movement following the isolation of the church from the state during the Nazi era. The purpose was to ‘draw together Protestant Christians in Germany in order to strengthen them in their faith, to prepare them for responsibility in their churches; to encourage them in witnessing in the world; and to have solidarity with those in the world-wide community of Christendom’.
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